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Chingiz Mehdiyev, who worked as the head of the Sports Operations Department of the Baku City Circuit Operating Company in 2015-2020, has been "stopped" from leaving the country.
İdman.Biz, referring to teleqraf.az, reports that a restriction has been imposed on his departure from the country by the Main Department for Combating Corruption under the Prosecutor General.
Chingiz Mehdiyev has applied to the court to lift the "stop" imposed on his departure from the country. He stated that he wanted to be examined in a foreign country due to health problems.
The certificate submitted to the court by the Baku City Probation Department of the Ministry of Justice stated that Chingiz Mehdiyev's unexpired probationary period is more than 2 years and one month.
The court listened to the defender, took into account the prosecutor's proposal, and, after examining the application and the materials attached to it, came to the conclusion that Chingiz Mehdiyev's application should not be granted.
It should be noted that Ch. Mehdiyev was accused of misappropriating a large amount of state funds and illegally legalizing the money. During the Formula 1 races, he artificially increased the prices of goods when ordering clothes, equipment, oilcloths and other items for the marshals. He transferred money allocated from the state budget to companies in the name of his close associates. The money obtained as a result of the price inflation was deliberately embezzled.
He also presented the company he created in the offshore zone - the Seychelles - in the name of his mother, who was unaware of the crime, as an organization specializing in holding Formula 1 races, intending to plunder a large amount of funds entrusted to him.
The investigation revealed that Ch. Mehdiyev embezzled a total of 397,852,000 manats of state funds. In addition, in order to hide the real source of the money he obtained, he legalized large amounts of money by transferring them to foreign banks.
For the above-mentioned actions, Ch. Mehdiyev was charged under Articles 179.3.2 (embezzlement in large quantities), 12.1, 193-1.3.2 (legalization of money obtained by criminal means), 308.2 (abuse of official powers) and 313 (official forgery) of the Criminal Code. According to the verdict, Chingiz Mehdiyev was sentenced to 8 years of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of 3 years.
